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Adding a father to a tree

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Gordon

Gordon Report 27 Sep 2006 15:21

Does anyone know please how you add a father to a tree if the parents were not married. Thank you Gordon

FamilyFogey

FamilyFogey Report 27 Sep 2006 15:27

You can just add him as you would for any other father - I have many people on my tree who were not actually married to each other but had children. Their children just have their mothers surname etc. Adding a father doesn't have to change the child's surname to theirs. You can just add in the Note section that the parents were not married.

Gordon

Gordon Report 27 Sep 2006 15:34

Thank you for your advice. I didn't want to make an error.